It is proceeding a pace. We already heard of Ted Cruz's amazing tie in Louisiana despite losing the state by 30 points to Trump.
We hear that the North Dakota GOP is 'freezing out Trump.'
"How the North Dakota GOP is freezing out Trump."
"Republican candidates are fighting for 25 delegates doled out during one chaotic weekend, but state party rules put outsiders at a steep disadvantage."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/donald-trump-delegates-north-dakota-gop-221480#ixzz44l37YB1i
Now we hear this in Tennessee:
We hear that the North Dakota GOP is 'freezing out Trump.'
"How the North Dakota GOP is freezing out Trump."
"Republican candidates are fighting for 25 delegates doled out during one chaotic weekend, but state party rules put outsiders at a steep disadvantage."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/donald-trump-delegates-north-dakota-gop-221480#ixzz44l37YB1i
Now we hear this in Tennessee:
"Tennessee GOP beats back Trump allies."
"State party approves new list of national convention delegates despite fierce outcry from the mogul's supporters."
"Tennessee Republican Party leaders approved a delegate slate on Saturday over the heated objections of Donald Trump’s campaign, which is accusing the state's insiders of supplanting several supporters with anti-Trump forces."
"At a tense meeting of the state party's executive committee, police removed pro-Trump protesters, and an already heightened sense of confrontation was exacerbated when Trump’s national director of social media tweeted out the personal cell phone of the state party chairman, Ryan Haynes."
Releasing his number? How Trumpian. Remember when Trump did this to Lindsey Graham?
“It was a bad day for the Republican Party in this state,” said Trump supporter Mark Winslow, who said he had been removed from a list of delegates agreed upon by Trump’s state director and Haynes on Wednesday, reclassified as an alternate and then removed altogether.
"Trump’s backers maintain Haynes engineered the removal of several Trump supporters from a list of at-large Tennessee delegates and replaced with Republicans likely to support Trump’s rivals at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland -- if the nomination fight takes more than two ballots to resolve. Tennessee's delegates to the convention are bound to the results of the state primary -- which Trump won -- for the first two ballots."
"Haynes rejected claims he had done anything improper and insisted there had been no agreement with the Trump campaign on an initial list of delegates. Rather, he noted, Tennessee's GOP rules give the party the ultimate authority to name delegates, and any guidance from the campaigns is purely advisory."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/tennessee-gop-delegates-donald-trump-221500#ixzz44l43y1I8
Hm. In other words, the party decides.
"State party approves new list of national convention delegates despite fierce outcry from the mogul's supporters."
"Tennessee Republican Party leaders approved a delegate slate on Saturday over the heated objections of Donald Trump’s campaign, which is accusing the state's insiders of supplanting several supporters with anti-Trump forces."
"At a tense meeting of the state party's executive committee, police removed pro-Trump protesters, and an already heightened sense of confrontation was exacerbated when Trump’s national director of social media tweeted out the personal cell phone of the state party chairman, Ryan Haynes."
Releasing his number? How Trumpian. Remember when Trump did this to Lindsey Graham?
“It was a bad day for the Republican Party in this state,” said Trump supporter Mark Winslow, who said he had been removed from a list of delegates agreed upon by Trump’s state director and Haynes on Wednesday, reclassified as an alternate and then removed altogether.
"Trump’s backers maintain Haynes engineered the removal of several Trump supporters from a list of at-large Tennessee delegates and replaced with Republicans likely to support Trump’s rivals at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland -- if the nomination fight takes more than two ballots to resolve. Tennessee's delegates to the convention are bound to the results of the state primary -- which Trump won -- for the first two ballots."
"Haynes rejected claims he had done anything improper and insisted there had been no agreement with the Trump campaign on an initial list of delegates. Rather, he noted, Tennessee's GOP rules give the party the ultimate authority to name delegates, and any guidance from the campaigns is purely advisory."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/tennessee-gop-delegates-donald-trump-221500#ixzz44l43y1I8
Hm. In other words, the party decides.
Haynes also noted that Trump is guaranteed a precise amount of delegate support on the first two ballots at the national convention.
“They had 33 delegates yesterday. They have 33 delegates today,” he said following the vote. “Those individuals by state law will be bound by two rounds of voting to vote for that candidate.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/tennessee-gop-delegates-donald-trump-221500#ixzz44l49bgWD
The Trump supporters don't sound mollified:
"Winslow said it would be up to the campaign to decide whether to challenge delegates before the RNC’s credentialing committee. A spokeswoman for the Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment following Saturday’s vote."
"Trump may not take the defeat quietly. He recently reacted angrily to similar maneuvering by Ted Cruz’s campaign that allowed it peel off some of his delegates in Louisiana - and his campaign filed a formal challenge to the results there. Trump has previously linked his support for the GOP to whether he considers himself being treated fairly by the party establishment. GOP leaders are worried that efforts to outmaneuver him in the delegate hunt could feed his supporters' grievances."
“It’s the events of today in Tennessee which justify Mr. Trump saying he has not been treated fair by the Republican Party,” said conservative commentator Scottie Nell Hughes, a Trump campaign surrogate whose husband, Chris Hughes, is among the Trump Tennessee delegates elected directly by voters."
"The controversy erupted on Friday when Haynes produced a delegate slate that Trump’s campaign said differed from one they had settled on earlier this week."
“We won the votes. They are trying to steal them. I can’t believe I am writing this. But the Tennessee Republican Party wants to steal your vote TOMORROW,” Darren Morris, Trump’s Tennessee state director wrote in a missive late Friday night
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/tennessee-gop-delegates-donald-trump-221500#ixzz44l4ujcPX
The GOP is in a choose your own poison position. Remember when Lindsay Graham compared Trump to Cruz to being stabbed vs. poisoned. That's where they are-Lindsey chose being poisoned-Ted Cruz.
In my last two posts I looked at some of the chicanery Bernie employed to try to overturn his Nevada loss.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/04/christine-kramar-sounds-like-typical.html
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/04/christine-kramar-sounds-like-typical.html
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/04/bernie-can-never-whine-about-super.html
What all this tells you is despite the attempt of populists to muddy the water on talk of 'direct democracy' the party really does decide. Otherwise there would be no delegates.
“They had 33 delegates yesterday. They have 33 delegates today,” he said following the vote. “Those individuals by state law will be bound by two rounds of voting to vote for that candidate.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/tennessee-gop-delegates-donald-trump-221500#ixzz44l49bgWD
The Trump supporters don't sound mollified:
"Winslow said it would be up to the campaign to decide whether to challenge delegates before the RNC’s credentialing committee. A spokeswoman for the Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment following Saturday’s vote."
"Trump may not take the defeat quietly. He recently reacted angrily to similar maneuvering by Ted Cruz’s campaign that allowed it peel off some of his delegates in Louisiana - and his campaign filed a formal challenge to the results there. Trump has previously linked his support for the GOP to whether he considers himself being treated fairly by the party establishment. GOP leaders are worried that efforts to outmaneuver him in the delegate hunt could feed his supporters' grievances."
“It’s the events of today in Tennessee which justify Mr. Trump saying he has not been treated fair by the Republican Party,” said conservative commentator Scottie Nell Hughes, a Trump campaign surrogate whose husband, Chris Hughes, is among the Trump Tennessee delegates elected directly by voters."
"The controversy erupted on Friday when Haynes produced a delegate slate that Trump’s campaign said differed from one they had settled on earlier this week."
“We won the votes. They are trying to steal them. I can’t believe I am writing this. But the Tennessee Republican Party wants to steal your vote TOMORROW,” Darren Morris, Trump’s Tennessee state director wrote in a missive late Friday night
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/tennessee-gop-delegates-donald-trump-221500#ixzz44l4ujcPX
The GOP is in a choose your own poison position. Remember when Lindsay Graham compared Trump to Cruz to being stabbed vs. poisoned. That's where they are-Lindsey chose being poisoned-Ted Cruz.
In my last two posts I looked at some of the chicanery Bernie employed to try to overturn his Nevada loss.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/04/christine-kramar-sounds-like-typical.html
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/04/christine-kramar-sounds-like-typical.html
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/04/bernie-can-never-whine-about-super.html
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